LSA Global

MARCH 22, 2017

The research around talent management has uncovered some surprises. We had thought that the best performing companies had the most star talent. Instead of spreading them equally across the organization, Bain found they focused them in the most critical business operations…the functions most crucial to business success.

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Brimstone Consulting

MARCH 12, 2020

Brimstone worked side-by-side with an early-stage consumer goods organization to pursue its vision, build a strategic plan, develop roles and operating mechanisms, and to drive sustainable growth at a challenging inflection point. CASE STUDY. Revenue increased by 34 times.

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LSA Global

MARCH 7, 2024

Smart acquisitions can provide immediate access to valuable new products, technologies, talent, intellectual property, clients, and geographies. Successful culture integration requires the same thoughtful due diligence that is applied to the legal, financial, technological, and operational aspects of the deal.

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LSA Global

JULY 30, 2022

When leaders build a more effective work team, they harness the talent, enthusiasm, and commitment of their people and enable everyone to row in the same direction in a way that makes sense. The Talent – The Right People in the Right Seats In the final analysis, a well-functioning team is made up of individuals.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

While you may not directly use the 7 S Model in the consulting case interview, it will give you a deeper understanding of how to examine the inner workings of an organisation, identify strengths and sources of competitive advantage, as well as weaknesses and reasons why an organisation may not be operating effectively.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Develop New Managers New people managers need meaningful support to be set up for success. If you want to really improve manager competence and confidence, we recommend you take a highly customized action learning leadership development approach. Because we measured over 800 successful (e.g.,

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LSA Global

APRIL 20, 2023

Your Operations Research by Gartner uncovered that the processes, budgets, policies, and organizational structures that leaders set up to run the business have a three times greater impact on what employees do and think than what leaders say and do. Carefully review how work gets done to ensure it does not conflict with what you want.

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LSA Global

MARCH 20, 2020

While many pundits believe that people can’t perform both roles well, corporations continue to believe that high performing and high potential employees can, at the same time, operate as an effective individual producer and people leader simultaneously. Talent – Build Skills. How to Set Up Your Player-Coaches for Success.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 2, 2017

In an apparent attempt to stop McKinsey poaching key talent, AlixPartners sued its former employees (Eric Thompson, managing director of AlixPartners’ Hong Kong office, and Ivo Naumann, head of its Shanghai branch) on claims that they misappropriated trade secrets before they left the firm’s Asian operations. Catalyst for Change.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 24, 2017

Organizations that strive to stay successful and competitive into the future must carefully consider how they manage top talent in a world that is increasingly dependent on technology. Companies need to recognize that their competitive edge will depend on the quality of their human talent. You need to develop a true learning culture.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 14, 2020

Finding top talent, even when the job market is not tight, is not easy. Even though companies count on new hires to make their growth plans happen, there never seems to be a deep enough or wide enough talent pipeline. And leadership teams may not be operating in an easily detectable aligned or healthy manner.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 30, 2019

19% lower operating income. While managers and management practices matter to a certain degree, our employee engagement survey data from over 500,000 employees per year over the last five years tells us that company leadership and opportunities for development matter more. The Importance of Career Growth and Development Opportunities.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 25, 2022

Our over three decades of sales strategy, sales culture, and sales talent experience across multiple industries and geographies leads us to conclude that there are five characteristics of great sales managers that make the biggest impact on revenue growth, profitability, win-rate, cycle time, client satisfaction, and sales team engagement.

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LSA Global

MAY 11, 2023

To us, it feels like leadership malpractice to create an organizational structure that negatively impacts the loyalty, discretionary effort, or intent to stay of your top talent. Just remember that each organization has a unique mix of strategies, cultures, and talent that must be treated accordingly.

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Brimstone Consulting

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

What’s your framework around people and leadership –how do you identify, motivate, assess and develop talent? How do you fix operational problems, political conflicts, interpersonal issues? Download Now. What kind of people do you tend to surround yourself with? How do you affect change? How do you define poor leadership?

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LSA Global

AUGUST 21, 2018

High growth helps set the stage to dominate market segments, to win big clients, to make strategic investments and to provide opportunities to attract and retain top talent. You may be expanding into new markets, acquiring or merging with another business, developing new products or simply growing the work force to meet increasing demand.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Many companies, when they attempt to develop a more positive corporate culture , try to outdo others in what they offer. They mistakenly think that providing more employee benefits will help them win the war for attracting and retaining top talent. Aligning Culture and Brand.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 25, 2020

First, pull a cross-functional team together from sales, marketing, pricing, finance, legal, product development, and service to identify how to best stabilize, forecast, and optimize strategic accounts and the sales pipeline in the next 30 days. Is your sales strategy, sales culture , and sales talent aligned enough to navigate a crisis?

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LSA Global

JUNE 15, 2017

But your workforce growth strategy will likely not survive or succeed if you do not have your talent and your corporate culture aligned with your overall talent management plan for the future. It involves adding talent. Download The 4 Do’s and 3 Don’ts of Culture Change Now. Hierarchical or flat?

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2019

Today’s best managers create an environment that encourages their employees to develop their own strengths, contribute effectively to the common goal, and work with team mates so that the whole is greater than its parts. By operating in the following manager roles to master: 1. Manager as Talent Magnet. Manager as Coach.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2018

In Today’s Digital Economy, Agile Practices Can’t Be Limited to Just the IT and Development Realms. Agile Adoption Goes beyond IT and Development to Other Organizations in the Business. But in the digital economy, it’s no longer enough to simply practice agile development. Sales (78 percent). They are 4.1

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LSA Global

AUGUST 8, 2019

Their abilities are a near perfect match for their job function; they are a seamless fit for the culture in which they operate; and they are in a position to make a significant positive difference. Your mission to build a high performing team requires that you develop your talent in the best way to meet your short- and long-term goals.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 8, 2019

Their abilities are a near perfect match for their job function; they are a seamless fit for the culture in which they operate; and they are in a position to make a significant positive difference. Your mission to build a high performing team requires that you develop your talent in the best way to meet your short- and long-term goals.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Flexible talent-access platforms are enabling many of these companies, making it easier than ever before to bring in the right skills for the right project at the right time. But making the most of flexible talent-access platforms is not as simple as adding a solution into an existing organization.

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LSA Global

MARCH 16, 2018

During change, operational approaches, decision making boundaries, social norms, risk tolerance levels, go-to-market approaches and beliefs about customer and employee centricity can weaken or become misaligned. Employee attrition of top talent increases. Top companies know that different talent contributes different levels of value.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Josh Waitzkin, chess whiz, martial arts expert and author of The Art of Learning , puts it this way, “The more present we are at practice, the more present we will be in competition, in the boardroom, at the exam, the operating table, the big stage.”. The Bottom Line.

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LSA Global

MAY 5, 2020

Then make sure you hire, develop, and promote against those sales competencies to strengthen your team. High performing sales teams are more than 2 times as likely to have good sales development processes in place, compared to underperformers. Pay special attention to the different skills and styles required for different sales roles.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

“Change” Has Changed Over three-quarters of CEOs acknowledge that their organizations need reinvention to compete for customers and talent. Are you doing what it takes to instill the confidence and competence required to operate in the new ways? A misaligned culture will derail any desired change effort.

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LSA Global

APRIL 9, 2021

Do Not Underestimate the Power of Simulation-Based Learning Simulation-based learning operates on the principle that you cannot learn to swim by just reading a book. Victims, passengers, and patients are protected from unnecessary risks while learners build the knowledge, skills, and attitudes they will need to operate successfully.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

A healthy culture creates the foundation to attract, engage, develop and retain top talent that works well together. Identify the cultural aspects that matter most in terms of customers, market approach, brand positioning, risk tolerance, operational variances, decision making, work atmosphere, people and results.

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LSA Global

JUNE 15, 2017

We wondered if employee career development conversations should follow suit. Companies with lower levels of employee engagement report 12% lower profits, 19% lower operating income and 28% lower earnings per share. Managers who held career development conversations at least once per year had 28.3% The Research.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 22, 2018

Download this podcast. Lastly, the fourth is diversity of talent, shifts in age profiles, education, global mobility, along with the change in expectations of equal opportunity and work life balance. They are aware and understand personal biases that enables them to make fair and merit-based decisions about talent.

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LSA Global

JUNE 5, 2019

Every organization needs to operate with some common standards and procedures. For example, one client made their HR function a shared service center which defunded a leadership development program that was essential to building their talent pipeline. When Standards and Uniformity Matter.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Companies like Google operate simultaneously in multiple ecosystems, as do their competitors. Instead, it has just focused on the mobile-operating-system market. Android is Google’s open-source operating system (OS), which means that it can be adopted by any device manufacturer and modified to provide different functionality.

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LSA Global

MAY 27, 2017

19% lower operating income. Does the employee need additional training and coaching to develop relevant skills for the job? These are all factors that help engage and retain top talent. To learn more, download The Top 10 Most Powerful Ways to Boost Employee Engagement. 28% lower earnings per share.

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Kates Kesler

AUGUST 29, 2012

This redefinition of the work of HR is intended to allow a more strategic focus on talent management and organizational capability while systematizing and controlling the cost of transactional work. Download entire pdf to continue reading this article. Third, HR became an easy target for cost reductions.

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Kates Kesler

AUGUST 29, 2012

We long have been fascinated by the overlap between leadership and organization development. One of the most difficult challenges for new general managers, who have been promoted after leading functional teams in marketing, sales or operations, is to make their leadership impact scalable across and multi-dimensional organization.

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